I love newegg and UPS. My package was shipped by Newegg ON the 4th of July and it arrived a day early on UPS's part Just put the card and fan controller in, drivers are being downloaded right now. The cards PCB is the same length as a regular 4870 but the heatsink sticks out about an inch or so.

-------------------You look just like a zombie,inches from dead and pretty,With purple flowers in your hair.

Hey everyone, just leaving a quick note saying I'm stepping away for several months. Had some stuff come up I have to go take care of and most likely wont have internet access for a while. Because of this, I've requested demotion from all my forums as there's no since staying on as the mod if I won't be here.

I'm not sure who will be replacing me here but you should be finding out in a few days.

I had a lot of fun while I was here, hopefully I wont be gone for too long though!

Intel's new top model LGA 2011 is the i7-3960X. The naming is getting *bleep*ing ridiculous by the way. Did they really have to skip to generation 3 for this? The only thing that's really upgraded from the 2xxx series is the 'uncore' and more cache.

Same ~15% speed boost clock-for-clock compared to the current high end 6-cores. Is it just me or does their "Estimated" physics score seem a bit ridiculous?

Great to see quad channel memory coming, even though it's useless to most people, and hopefully we'll see even more implementation of AVX as time goes on.

-------------------You look just like a zombie,inches from dead and pretty,With purple flowers in your hair.

okay, i have to ask this, because ive seen it for quite a while, and its really bugging me...what the hell are bitcoins? whats the point, and more to the point...why? i just read an article about a school IT manager using all the computers as a bitcoin farm...whatever that means.

Bitcoin is basically a virtual currency that is accepted by very few etailers/websites. Bitcoin looked like it was gonna take off a few months ago until something (I think it was exploiting the coin farming system or something) caused the real dollar value of a bitcoin to drop substantially. I don't see it lasting too long. Maybe another virtual currency will emerge from bitcoin.